Executive Order 3247

by President of the United States

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of Congress of August 10, 1917, entitled "An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel," and other powers thereunto me authorizing, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby order and direct that from and after 12.01 o'clock a. m., on the 1st day of April, 1920, the order issued by me on the 30th day of October, 1919, restoring certain rules, regulations, orders, and proclamations therein referred to, relative to the price of bituminous coal and other matters and things therein described, shall be suspended until further ordered, and that all other Executive orders subsequent thereto issued by me, except the Executive order of February 25, 1920, relative to the Tidewater Coal Exchange, and all orders subsequent thereto issued by the United States Fuel Administrator, or any person acting pursuant to authority conferred upon him either by me or the United States Fuel Administrator, shall be suspended until otherwise ordered, on and after 12.01 o'clock a. m., April 1, 1920, it being the intent and purpose of this order to restore at 12.01 o'clock a. m., on April 1, 1920, the rules and regulations of the United States Fuel Administration to the status existing immediately prior to the aforesaid Executive order of October 30, 1919, but not in any wise to affect the validity of any act or thing done under any of said orders or regulations prior to 12.01 o'clock a. m., April 1, 1920, or the Executive order of February 25, 1920, relative to the Tidewater Coal Exchange.

Woodrow Wilson 

The White House,

March 19, 1920.